1.   The hardened professional smuggler, on the other hand, is never troubled by such feelings, even if he has five hundred gold watches hidden in his suitcase.

2.   But the tightening of immigration and asylum laws, together with the beefed-up security, has forced migrants to be more cunning and to hire professional smugglers.

3.   None of the passengers had gone through the formal process of immigration to the United States, and authorities suspect professional smugglers had a hand in their voyage.

4.   Others pay professional smugglers upward of several thousand dollars to bring the animals in by boat or truck.

5.   With professional smugglers fighting one another so openly, the police said, the risk has grown that ordinary citizens might be caught in crossfire.

6.   Because a large portion of the diamonds are washed up by streams and rivers, they were easily uncovered by both professional smugglers and amateur prospectors.

7.   He said she and the children flew via Cairo to Budapest, Hungary, where she hoped a professional smuggler would help get her into Europe.

8.   In Baghdad, an Iraqi official denied the Jordanian claim, saying the men were professional smugglers and members of experienced gangs.

9.   Some turn to professional smugglers in frustration.

10.   The arrivals are not the rafters of the past, but people who paid professional smugglers to be taken to the United States.